Essential guide to writing part 8

... illiterate want to learn how to read. Then they want education, and then more education, and then they want their sons and daughters to become doctors and lawyers. It is frightening to see so many ... accustomed to the law and order of the present day to understand the dangers which threatened the Jacobean trav- eller. The seas swarmed with pirates; so that few merchantmen dared...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 04:15

... you, then, to create an appropriate tone and to avoid pomposity, say, or will put readers off. Here are a few examples of how skillful writers make tone work for them. Tone Toward Subject Toward ... Chartists had pushed through a fac- tory law restricting working time for women and juveniles to eleven hours, and from May 1, 184 8 to ten hours. This was not at all to the liking of th...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 16:15

... some manner, to live, and look tolerably well, notwithstanding their despair and the continued absence of their lover; and some have even been known to recover so far as to be inclined to take another ... www.tailieuduhoc.org STOPS following sentence is an example (the Duke of Wellington is commenting with pleasant cynicism upon the capacity of young ladies to endure the absence of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 16:15

... more reluctant to admit it. John Charles R. Forbes went to jail. Albert B. Fall went to jail. Alien Property Custodian Thomas W. Miller went to jail. Samuel Hopkins Adams Such plants to operate successfully ... sentence to another. Coherence belongs to the substructure of the par- agraph, to relationships of thought, feeling, and perception. Both necessary if a paragraph is t...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 03:15

... clear to the reader. If you are defining a word, un- derline it (equivalent to italic type). In the following para- graph, for instance, the writer wishes to make clear how the word history is ... garage and driveway. He will contribute his share to the 142 million tons of smoke and fumes, seven million junked cars, 20 million tons of paper, 48 bil- lion cans, and 26 billion bottles...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 02:15

... the process, from the seed to the crop, stops at the intermediate mechanical stage of the money. He does not grow things to feed men; not even to feed one man; not even to feed himself. The miser ... various occasions used sketches drawn by service station men, or by friends, to show the best automobile route from one town to another. The distinction usually made between "map...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 02:15

... that is still one hell a pile of pulp. Pauline To revert for a moment to the story told in the first person, it is plain that in that case the narrator has no such liberty. . . . Percy Comma with ... is less formal: short, says the historian Friedrich the crusades were pro- moted with all the devices of the stories, over-simplification, lies, inflammatory speeches. Morris Bishop The D...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 02:15

... be able to handle the short sentence to stress particular ideas and, when the occasion warrants, to compose brief passages in a segre- gating style. On the whole, however, the style is too limited for ... exactly what you want to say. Segregating sentences are especially useful in descriptive and narrative writing. They analyze a complicated perception or action into its parts and ar...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 09:15

... word "campaign": The Department of Justice began a vigorous campaign to break up the corporate empires, to restore the free and open market, and to plant the feet of the industry firmly on the road to competition. Thurman ... likely to seem too elaborate to modern readers, a less "natural" way of writing than the segregating style or the freight-train or cumu...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 09:15

... length hearkened to the terms of peace, which was concluded with great advantage to the empire and to Holland, but none at all to us, and clogged soon after with the famous treaty of partition. Allowed ... those places which interested me, from a defect of eye or of hand was totally ineffectual. Sir Walter Scott The life story to be told of any creative worker is therefore by its ve...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 00:15